This year has been…challenging. On New Year’s Eve, we sat around my grandma’s bedside. Just after Christmas, she fell asleep and woke only to say things that made no sense. She didn’t recognize Mom or me. She only knew Eli, who was six-months-old at the time and like a child,
It’s been two years since I chalk painted our kitchen cabinets. Here’s the top 10 questions I get about my chalk painted kitchen cabinets: 1. What did you use? Originally, I used Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Old White on the uppers and Duck Egg Blue on the lower cabinets.
If you’ve been following our stair makeover, you’ve read how I ripped up the builder-basic carpet in a fit of madness then painted the stairs for less than $50. The final step was installing a runner from Sisal Rugs Direct. Here’s everything you need to know about choosing the best
When we bought our house two years ago, the kitchen was painted a burnt pumpkin orange and the previous owners had installed a black, ivory and gold backsplash that, though nice, wasn’t what I would have picked. Everyone who saw the kitchen said it was pretty but it didn’t feel
The staircase is the first thing you see when you enter our house and when we moved in two years ago, it was carpeted in a builder-basic carpet that wasn’t white or tan or gray. The best way I can describe it is skinned Muppets. Dirty skinned Muppets. Just imagine
If you ask me, a door isn’t just a door. Especially if you’ve had one after another closed in your face. These days, a door, THIS door, looks like a fresh start. I found this particular door for $10 at Restore and though right now it doesn’t look like much,